Friday, November 26, 2010
This Week In Education: White House: Duncan Escapes Blame For POTUS Injury
This Week In Education: White House: Duncan Escapes Blame For POTUS Injury
I was worried / excited that it might have been Arne Duncan who bashed the President in the lip during a holiday basketball game -- and indeed Duncan was there. But it wasn't Duncan who did the deed -- it was some guy who
La ausencia del visado en Ecuador y su relación con la delincuencia « Spanish Readers' Blog
La ausencia del visado en Ecuador y su relación con la delincuencia « Spanish Readers' Blog
La ausencia del visado en Ecuador y su relación con la delincuencia
En el 2009 hicimos mención al trabajo de Christian Gallegos Gomez. No hemos sido capaces de seguir el desarrollo y crecimiento de la red que él se propusiera en ese tiempo. Sin embargo, siendo un tema latente y de importancia en Ecuador, y luego de incluso saber del acercamiento entre el gobernador (Alianza Pais) y el alcalde de Guayaquil (Madera de Guerrrero) para luchar en contra de la delincuencia organizada en Guayaquil,
Meet Shael Polakow-Suransky: DOE’s new second-in-command | GothamSchools
Meet Shael Polakow-Suransky: DOE’s new second-in-command | GothamSchools
Meet Shael Polakow-Suransky: DOE’s new second-in-command
State Education Commissioner David Steiner is expected to grant Hearst Magazines executive Cathleen Black the waiver she needs to become schools chancellor on Monday, on one condition: that she appoint current Deputy Chancellor Shael Polakow-Suransky as her Chief Academic Officer.
Suransky, who has worked in the city schools for 16 years, will be responsible for the administration of the city’s education policies and serve as Black’s chief advisor, according to a letter Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent Steiner today.
Here are four things to know about the city’s new educator-in-chief, who will serve as second-in-command to Black’s manager-in-chief:
1. His theory of change revolves around improving “instruction,” which is a different way of thinking
Queens Teacher: The Suransky Connection
Queens Teacher: The Suransky Connection
The Suransky Connection
SHAEL POLAKOW-SURANSKY
The Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2008
Deputy Chancellor for Performance and Accountability
New York City Department of Education
“Teachers and principals need to be accountable for student performance and empowered to make the critical decisions that impact their daily work to accelerate student learning.”
Shael Polakow-Suransky serves as deputy chancellor for performance and accountability for the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). The NYCDOE is the largest district in the nation, serving over 1 million students. In this role, Polakow-Suransky leads the Department's Division of Accountability and Achievement Resources which evaluates school performance and provides tools that educators and families use to accelerate achievement. Previously, Polakow-Suransky served as chief academic officer for the Empowerment Schools at
The Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2008
Deputy Chancellor for Performance and Accountability
New York City Department of Education
“Teachers and principals need to be accountable for student performance and empowered to make the critical decisions that impact their daily work to accelerate student learning.”
Shael Polakow-Suransky serves as deputy chancellor for performance and accountability for the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). The NYCDOE is the largest district in the nation, serving over 1 million students. In this role, Polakow-Suransky leads the Department's Division of Accountability and Achievement Resources which evaluates school performance and provides tools that educators and families use to accelerate achievement. Previously, Polakow-Suransky served as chief academic officer for the Empowerment Schools at
Schools Matter: Tax Free Corporate Billions Leveraged to Take Over Social Policy Making
Schools Matter: Tax Free Corporate Billions Leveraged to Take Over Social Policy Making
The new Gates Foundation financials are out, and things look much improved in 2009 following the 2008 meltdown. When you click on this chart to enlarge it, you will see that the Gates Foundation now has nearly 30,000 millions of dollars (that's 30 billion) to use as it sees fit to bribe, to silence, to shape, to destroy, to seed, to alter, to maintain, to transform, to extort, to buy quiet, to build out of thin air any social policy that the Foundation wants, and all of it is tax-free. Well, not quite. In 2009, th
Tax Free Corporate Billions Leveraged to Take Over Social Policy Making
In Italy, Education Protests Spread - NYTimes.com #demo2010
In Italy, Education Protests Spread - NYTimes.com
In Italy, Education Protests Spread
By GAIA PIANIGIANI
Published: November 26, 2010
ROME — This week, a group of students broke into the hall of the Italian Senate in Rome, while another occupied the Colosseum; in Pisa, students took over a runway at the airport; in Palermo, they sat on the railway tracks; in Florence and Milan, they clashed with the police, while at a dozen universities, researchers dragged their sleeping bags onto the roofs, where they have been sleeping as a sign of protest.
The demonstrations, which spread to many other Italian cities this month, were aimed at a new bill, currently being discussed in the lower house, to overhaul the Italian university system. If it is approved in upcoming weeks, it will pass to the Senate, as long as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s tottering majority holds and his conservative government remains in power.
Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini’s proposed bill is one of the most far-reaching education overhaul efforts in recent years. It aims to reorganize the governance of institutions and the system of recruiting university teachers, and to change the way funds
Gary Anderson: The Appointment of Cathleen Black and the Trouble with Corporate Schooling
Gary Anderson: The Appointment of Cathleen Black and the Trouble with Corporate Schooling
Read More: Cathleen Black , Charles Payne , Charter Schools , Corporate Education , David Steiner , David Whitman , Fordham Institute , High-Stakes Testing , John Dewey , Lisa Delpit , Michael Bloomberg , New York City , Pay For Performance , School Reform , W. Edwards Deming , Education News
The latest episode in the corporate takeover of public schools in New York City is playing out in Mayor Bloomberg's appointment of non-educator Cathleen Black to replace Joel Klein as the city's Chancellor of Education. Black is a magazine mogul and 20-year member of the board of directors of Coca Cola, a company under attack for its union-busting activities and its contribution to childhood obesity. She is a product of private schools; her kids attended boarding schools; and she has no experience in the public sector.
The secrecy of her appointment process has annoyed even those who support corporate leadership, leading to considerable opposition to Black from unions, parents, and educators, which is giving State Commissioner, David Steiner and his advisory panel pause.
Steiner's vision for school reform draws on a corporate model. I recently spoke on a panel on Long Island in which Dr. Steiner was the respondent. I lamented that it had become impolitic to mention John Dewey's name in public, so under attack were educators and Dewey's notions of democratic and experiential education. I expected and received the standard response that giving urban kids
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